The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 16
Then Conal cried in storm of rage and woe, ‘Since Conor lied to me this faulchion’s edge Shall pay the debt he owes, and that I owe, A death to honour and to vengeance due;’ And down he dragged Fiacre, and, trampling, slew.
Who acts: Conal, Conor, edge, I, rage · What happens: cry, lie, pay, owe, honour, drag · To what, where: death, storm, me, debt, Fiacre
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conal, Conor, edge, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | Conal | Conal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 storm | case |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 storm | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 woe | cc |
| 9 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rage | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lied | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 lied | punct |
| 12 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 lied | mark |
| 13 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lied | nsubj |
| 14 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lied | obl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 faulchion | det |
| 18 | faulchion | faulchion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 edge | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 faulchion | case |
| 20 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | nsubj |
| 21 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pay | aux |
| 22 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lied | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 debt | det |
| 24 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 owes | nsubj |
| 26 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 debt | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 death | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 death | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 owe | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 owe | nsubj |
| 31 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 death | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 owe | punct |
| 33 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 death | det |
| 34 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 honour | mark |
| 36 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | advcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 vengeance | cc |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 vengeance | case |
| 39 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 honour | conj |
| 40 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 honour | xcomp |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 ’ | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | conj |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 dragged | cc |
| 44 | down | down | ADV | _ | 46 dragged | advmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 dragged | nsubj |
| 46 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 47 | Fiacre | Fiacre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 dragged | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 trampling | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 trampling | cc |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 trampling | punct |
| 51 | trampling | trampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 slew | punct |
| 53 | slew | slew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 trampling | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Conal | a death | storm of rage and woe | then | trampling and slew obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Location | |
| 2 | lie | past | Conor | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | shall | this faulchion's edge | the debt | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset | ||||
| 4 | owe | present | Conor | the debt not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent debt=Theme | ||||
| 5 | owe | present | I | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | honour | to-infinitive | Conal not said here | vengeance conj; due property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | drag | past | Conor | Fiacre | down property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiacre=Theme | |||
| 8 | storm | rage and woe | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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